Chapter 29

MELISSA

I know that from today on, she will find it very difficult to trust a man again. I watch the doctor and the nurses leave the room, and I stay with Maggie, counting and trying not to think about the night before. I start counting and remembering the day I met her for the first time, and I manage to make her smile a few times.

I hear a new notification on my cell phone inside my bag, and I see Jacob's name on the screen, I still don't click on the new message, and I feel that Maggie is looking at me now. We both now have problems trusting people who want to get close to us, and I know how it hurts.

You want someone to take care of you and be with you, but your traumas don't allow that to happen, and that's the worst part.

"Are they my parents or your billionaire man?" I raise my head and smile in denial.

"He's not mine, but he did send me a new message. He wants me to go with him to a new event that's happening tonight, but I'm going to tell him I